Ground Cover

Ground Cover is a free bi-monthly newspaper published by the Grains Research and Development Corporation. It provides technical information for grain growers, including updates on research, trials, new varieties, farmer activities and case studies.

In this issue... Dry springs redefining the growing season Bristling at his grain losses, Gary invented.... bristles Legumes to pump prime wheat performance Centre to tackle high cost of fungal diseases

In this issue...Growers and researchers team with brewers for fresher beerExperiments start to make sense of early sowing strategiesNew methods to harness genetic diversity rais hopes for frost tolerance.

In this edition...Pulses: Food science key to higher-value markets;Farm management: Two growers choose different strategies from their local R&D;On-Farm: How a 'love of learning' shapes modern cropping.

In this edition:Crop sequencing: Trials measure chickpea/wheat profitabilityElectronic farming: How smartphones and tablets are improving crop managementFrost management: Research and experience is helping more growers cope with frost

Every business in the grains value chain depends on growers being profitable. This is the ‘bottom line’ on which the GRDC’s management of grains research is focused.All the technology that is developed with GRDC support has, at its core, the goal of helping growers make more money, and keep making more money, in spite of the relentless pressure from challenges such as climate variability, market volatility and rising input costs.In this edition:Barley: Voyage into barley’s genetic ‘inner-space’ - Mapping of the barley genome opens the way to crop improvementRust Research: Net tightens around wheat's ancient nemesis - Isolation of the first rust resistance genes brings new global food hopeE-Farming: Smart farming - data banks at your fingertips - New mobile tools put vast databanks at your fingertips